Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Kazuo Ishiguro

• Life

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Think
  • Red
  • Down

• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Now
  • Bigger

• I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Women
  • Book
  • Creativity

• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Grow
  • Flame

• Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

  

  Laura Bush
  • World
  • Children
  • Learning

• (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Forever
  • Between
  • Secretary

• Conscience is God present in man.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Man
  • Present

• So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Mother
  • Hope
  • Communication

• The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Experience
  • Friends
  • Together

• A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Life
  • Live
  • Single

• Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Direction
  • Tradition

• I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.

  

  Randy Weber
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Family

• Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Different
  • Me
  • Perfect

• I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Ignorance

• There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Good
  • Political

• Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Focus
  • Needs
  • Even

• It needs to be said and heard: it's OK to be who you are.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • You
  • Needs
  • Said

• And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?

  

  Emma Thompson
  • Why
  • True
  • High

• It was necessary for the Son to disappear as an outward authority, in order that He might reappear as an inward principle of life. Our salvation is no longer God manifested in a Christ without us, but as a ' Christ within us, the hope of glory.'

  

  Frederick William Robertson
  • Life
  • God
  • Hope

• Pinchas Perry, the director of 'The Chicago 8,' offered me the role of the judge, and he did not know that, 35 years earlier, I'd played a judge in the theater production. So life has its own little twists and turns.

  

  Philip Baker Hall
  • Life
  • Judge
  • Chicago

• There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Life